Everything was fine, the only beauty was that there was one more fellow in the crowd named Zhu Pingan!
Yuan Wei was on his way to the Western Garden, and just the thought of Zhu Pingan travelling to the Western Garden with him was like accidentally swallowing a fly while eating a mountain of delicacies!
However, it was fine, it was time to show him off! Let him understand his position, so that he doesn’t think that he’s self-righteous just because he wrote a few food pie poems that he cobbled together!
Yuan Wei had made up his mind that he would definitely write another sensational poem for the Jiao-festival this time!
Zhu Pingan was not so preoccupied, all he had was curiosity, curiosity about what Emperor Jiajing’s Jaichu was like, how big it was, and curiosity about how the Jaichu was held. Walking on the road to the West Garden, Zhu Pingan whispered with Zhang Siwei exchanging views with each other, unconsciously arrived at the West Garden.
At the moment, the West Garden smoke, I do not know how many incense burners in the West Garden this day, it is estimated that you have to use the car bucket volume to calculate it. Fortunately, the air quality is good, or so incense and have to increase the pm2.5 index.
West Park duty of all kinds of guards and sergeants are all in the weapons and blades wrapped in an apricot yellow cloth, in order to clear the will to heaven for the good not to kill, the West Park inside the arrangement is a bit like a temple Taoist temple, Taoist statues, incense burners, a variety of talismanic seals and so on, if it is the first time to come to the words, surely will think that came to the Taoist temple.
Li Mo will Zhu Pingan they led to the West Garden, handed over to a middle-aged Taoist priest dressed in people, then went to the cabinet duty of the Pinglu, Li Mo on the Zhaizhu this set, from the bottom of the eye.
Now the strict party is in the way, the law and discipline is lax, the saint cultivate immortal alchemy more than ten years do not go to the court, the state affairs of thousands of pieces, and how is the cultivation of immortality can be solved? If cultivation of immortality can really become immortal, then the saint was treated as a teacher of the last Tianshi Shao Yuanjie and how will pass away, Shao Yuanjie are inevitably hanged, the saint and what effort it. Really do not understand, the saint is so intelligent, even if not on the court can also be the government in the hands. But why can’t you see through such shallow reasoning!
Li Mo sighed several times in his heart, shook his head and returned to his duty flat hut, closed the window, for the outside of the woodcutting and other things. Eyes out of sight, heart out of mind.
“Lords please wait for a moment, the master is discussing the matter of woodcutting for fasting with the saint.”The middle-aged Taoist priest said to Zhu Pingan and the others with a wave of Buddha’s dust, indicating that Zhu Pingan and the others should wait for a moment first.
Zhu Pingan noticed that the eight trigrams pattern and other lines on this middle-aged Taoist priest’s robe were all outlined with gold silk, it was really extravagant. Such a Taoist robe would have to be made with at least several taels of gold!
While the middle-aged Taoist priest was talking, inside the Three Ching Hall, Emperor Jiajing and Tao Zhongwen had already finalised the various details of this Lenten Woodcutting, and Tao Zhongwen had already risen from the bagua cushion to bow to Emperor Jiajing.
“In that case, I would like to thank Master Tao.”Emperor Jiajing also rose from the bagua cushion.
Emperor Jiajing was very courteous to Tao Zhongwen, and even Yan Song would have been jealous if he was here to see this scene. Jiajing Emperor even used “teacher” to address Tao Zhongwen, Jiajing Emperor to Yan Song also just call Yan Song’s word.
In addition, Yan Song want to see Jiajing emperor words also have to ask for instructions through the endowment, this Tao Zhongwen see Jiajing emperor can directly into, through the end of the endowment do not have to, and every time to come in Jiajing emperor will give sitting.
This degree of courtesy. There is almost no second person in this dynasty.
Zhu Pingan in the outside waiting time also observed the arrangement of the altar, oh, to be precise should be “dojo”, in the dojo around there are a lot of dressed in gold silk outlined robes of the Taoist priests, they hold a variety of magic weapons, apricot yellow streamers, Chaojian, Ruyi, jade booklet, jade seal, sword, order flag, order arrows, tokens, etc., all of these magic tools areAll of these magic weapons were glittering with gold, and everything that used metal was made of gold!
Looking at this scene, Zhu Ping An almost couldn’t help but want to knock them a few times!
So much gold, how much money must be spent on this Woodcutting Ceremony. The blood and sweat of the people of the Ming Dynasty are all used to do this! It’s better to spend it on the people!
And that’s not all!
The dojo is very wide, built a total of nine altars, one of which is the main altar. The other eight altars were smaller, and the altars were high platforms constructed of earth and wood, used to communicate with the heavens, of which the main altar was almost seven or eight metres high, and on it were placed incense burners, candlesticks, vases, incense simples, and other offerings, as well as blocks and streamers, talismanic simples, chapter tables, dharma water, and hand stoves, and other things. There were nearly a hundred of them scattered about!
In addition to the Dharma altar, there are also nine hundred and ninety-eight incense burners on the dojo, each of these incense burners is fully half a person high, with more than a metre of Taoist incense that is thick enough to be the thickness of a baby’s arm, the smoke lingers around, and there are also several kinds of medicinal spices in the smell, so it is evident that the price of this incense burning is also definitely worth a lot of money.
What a waste!
Put this Zhai woodcutting spent money to the people to do something practical how good! White flowery silver is so burnt! Waste!
The scale of this Zhai woodcutter is more magnificent, Zhu Pingan is more heartache.
At the time of Zhu Pingan’s heartache, he heard a sound of the Infinite Heavenly Father, and then saw a distant white bearded, crane-haired old Taoist priest wearing apricot yellow robe slowly came, in the dojo Taoist priests all bowed to the old Taoist from afar, and a number of middle-aged Taoist priests of high status greeted the old Taoist priest’s orders.
Although the distance is far away, but Zhu Pingan also almost see the old Taoist looks, there is a kind of immortal style and Taoist feeling, almost is often described in the book inside the appearance of the old gods, white beard floating, hale and hearty.
This kind of godly style was comparable to the old godly man that Zhu Pingan had met on the banks of the Qinhuai River who had gifted Zhu Pingan with two books.
However, it could be confirmed that this Tao Tianshi was not the old Taoist that Zhu Pingan had met last time at the banks of the Qin Huai River! This Tao Tianshi appeared to be a bit older and had a bit more aura on his body.
Hey, cultivate your Tao and recite your scriptures in the mountains! I can’t afford to be tossed around like this! Speaking of which, the Ming this high building mountain in more than a hundred years after the collapse, to some extent, these in the palace of the Taoist priests also “out” a force!
Zhu Pingan looked at Tao Tianshi from afar, secretly skimmed his mouth!
Tao Tianshi in the distance after the command, then fluttered to another palace, about to share bath, ready to fast woodcutting it.
A few Taoist priests who listened to Tao Tianshi’s instructions came back and led Zhu Pingan and the others up to the altar, a Taoist priest paired with a Hanlin, two people in charge of an altar, going to the top of the altar to write green words, plaques, couplets, and so on.
Yuan Wei should be a regular visitor to the Zhaiqiao, and these Taoist priests all knew each other, and a Taoist priest, who was about the appearance of a senior brother, led Yuan Wei up to the main altar, which was the biggest one.
Yuan Wei, who had ascended to the highest and largest Dharma altar, looked down at Zhu Pingan, who had ascended to the smaller Dharma altar not far away, and revealed a proud look!
